![]() ![]() ![]() The characters were sketched out archetypes. Everything in this book feels like it’s already been done before. Every time I tried to start reading, it felt like there was a weight on my chest, one that would not go away until I decided to do something else. The thing is, this book is painfully boring. But I still figured it would be a fun-enough way to spend the time. So when my request was granted, I didn’t have the highest expectations. Otherwise, I don’t think I would have picked this up. ![]() I requested the book on a lark, mostly because I was interested in Mazen, the character described as a cowardly prince. The Stardust Thief is an adult desert fantasy written by an Arab-American author. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC! ![]()
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The explosive conclusion to the award-winning Powder Mage trilogy The capital has fallen. ![]() Inspector Adamat is determined to flush out the traitor, but as the conspiracy unravels, he will learn a horrifying truth. ![]() Someone, it seems, is selling secrets to the Kez. ![]() With their enemy bearing down on them, the Adran command is in disarray. The Autumn Republic Brian McClellan From 17. With his son Taniel presumed dead, Tamas must gather his beleaguered forces and formulate a plan to defeat the Kez - no easy task when you're outnumbered and can't tell friend from foe. I had a blast' Brandon Sanderson on Promise of Blood Field Marshal Tamas has finally returned to Adopest, only to find the capital in the hands of a foreign power. Innovative magic, quick-paced plot, interesting world. ![]() ![]() ![]() You confess your guilt, or your surprise, or your bafflement or lack of understanding - feelings about things that you or someone else did. ”you confess to crimes, mistakes, omissions, and so on - things you did. 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But there's one thing that remains still misty to me, where opinions seem to differ:ġ. Although there are several threads on the topic, most deal with confess + double object, and the answers are clearly explained. ![]() ![]() Between 1994 and May 2002 – when Red Dress Ink called with an offer to buy THE THIN PINK LINE – Lauren worked as a book reviewer, a freelance editor and writer, and a window washer, making her arguably the only woman in the world who has ever both hosted a book signing party and washed the windows of the late best-selling novelist Robert Ludlum. In November 1994, Lauren left the bookstore to finally take a chance on herself as a writer. There, she bought and sold for the better part of 11 years. Upon graduation, she began work at the venerable independent spacebookseller, now sadly defunct as such, Klein’s of Westport. Throughout college, she worked semester breaks as a doughnut salesperson, a job that she swears gave her white lung disease from all the powdered sugar she breathed. She also has what she calls her “half-Masters” in English from Western Connecticut State University (five courses down, another five to go…someday!). She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where she majored in psychology. Lauren grew up in Monroe, CT, where her father owned a drugstore at which her mother was the pharmacist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many fascinating discussions have explored what could have influenced Nietzsche: the social milieu of late 19th century Europe, the contradictions of Enlightenment thought, etc. So many things are explored, celebrated or indicted with ambitious and sharp leaps of metaphors: Moral relativism, comparative theology and eternal recurrence, nothing short of the love of life, the will to life. Full of surreal visions, Zarathustra is a challenge to interpret but at the same time, lacks the semantics of conventional philosophy that makes the field inaccessible for many young students. The events in the book are more like Biblical parables than a plot unfolding, except that the lesson is not, "Thou Shalt" but "Why should I?" I wish I could read German well enough to understand the nuances of Nietzsche's original narrative. It was my first encounter with existential thought, a stinging critique of the very nature of values and belief. I was warned that Nietzsche was dangerous for young readers (like Machiavelli) because he went insane. ![]() Reading through Zarathustra as a teenager was a singularly powerful experience the work defies categorization or genre, time or place. Horror movies never frightened me in the same way certain works of literature and film did. ![]() ![]() ![]() Back then, we all lived on the edge of the great forest."Īnd, while I am sure that children for centuries have loved the witch getting pushed into the oven by Gretel, the witch's gingerbread house is without a doubt the true draw for this story. and Gaiman begins this story with the words that show why he is a master story teller, gifted at establishing suspense and anticipation with a matter of sentences, "This all happened a long time ago, in your grandmother's time, or in her grandfather's. The thick, darkly dense images, which are actually done with an ink that contains five different colors, are full of movement and foreboding and perfectly suited to Gaiman's text. Mattiotti's illustrations are all two page spreads and were inspired by the Metropolitan Opera's production of Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel. What Gaiman and Mattotti do with a very familiar fairy tale in their rendition is amazing, both for the spare starkness of the text and illustrations and the powerful darkness that enfolds the story. Hansel & Gretel, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Lorenzo Mattiotti is the newest release from TOON Graphics, a line of graphic novels for kids reading at 3rd grade level and above, launched by the superb François Mouly and the fantastic people at TOON Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And it is here that she attracts the attention of a murderer who is prepared to kill again. The investigation takes Adelia deep into Cambridge its castle and convents, and streets teeming with life. ![]() What the king gets is Adelia, his very own Mistress of the Art of Death. But in Cambridge a child has been murdered, others are disappearing, and King Henry has called upon a renowned Italian investigator to find the killer - fast. Her speciality is the study of corpses, a skill that must be concealed if she is to avoid accusations of witchcraft. Adelia Aguilar is a rare thing in medieval Europe - a woman who has trained as a doctor. Winner of the CWA Best Historical Crime Novel of the Year 'Great fun! Franklin succeeds in vividly bringing the 12th century to life with this cracking good story' KATE MOSSE Medieval England. ![]() |